Joe Biden Is More Presidential Than Donald Trump Could Ever Hope to Be

In his first public appearance since the election, the former vice president asked the one question on everyone's mind.

Two months in, the Trump administration has devolved into such a terrifying, morally bankrupt mess that sometimes it's easy to forget just how absurd it is that the President of the United States is a bumbling conspiracy theorist who is under an active federal investigation for his campaign's contacts with a hostile foreign power during the 2016 election. Fortunately, former vice president Joe Biden, lover of memes and noted fisticuffs enthusiast, is more than happy to serve as our badly-needed national voice of reason.

Biden delivered an impassioned defense of the Affordable Care Act at a rally on the Capitol steps this morning, but the real fireworks came during his off-the-cuff remarks to the assembled press. As usual, America's favorite aspirational uncle simply couldn't help himself.

The notion that there’s still this...romance with Putin? The idea
that—I’m told, I’m not sure, you would know better—but I’m told that
the Secretary of State decided he’d go and visit Putin before he goes
to the NATO conference? What in the hell are we doing?

After listening to the audio something like 39 times, I am absolutely convinced that Biden says "bromance," but my editor disagrees. You be the judge. Spiritually, at least, it's definitely "bromance."

It's somewhat comforting to know that even the former vice president is out here incredulously asking the very same questions that Americans have been yelling at their televisions with increasing frequency and volume over the last two months. Joe Biden, who embarked on a 36-year Senate career at the same time that President Trump was being sued by the Department of Justice for race discrimination, is a national treasure, and he possesses more common sense and leadership ability in his American flag lapel pin than this current president could ever hope to accumulate.

After the rally, a reporter asked whether President Obama, as Trump has alleged on social media without providing any evidence, really ordered the wiretapping of Trump Tower during the presidential campaign. The scornful response:

Yeah, five or six times. Are you serious?

Joe Biden forever and ever and ever.

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